Dan and Michael Refuse:Why We Say No — to Politics, Vaccines, and Tamales

Timestamps:00:00 – Intro: What is People Stuff?02:00 – What Fresh Hell: Baseball cards, blind packs, and CT scanners08:00 – Question 1: Politics, podcasts, and the red-pill relationship20:00 – Question 2: Anti-vaxx cousins and the anthropology of purity and danger34:00 – Fixing Shit: How to fix college admissions (spoiler: lotteries)44:00 – Question 3: Food, family, and why your boyfriend refuses tamales56:00 – Outro: Fake sponsors & final thoughtsIn this episode, Dan and Michael discuss:Imagined Communities by Benedict AndersonUnderstanding Media by Marshall McLuhanAmusing Ourselves to Death by Neil PostmanPurity and Danger by Mary Douglas“Techniques of the Body” by Marcel MaussOutline of a Theory of Practice by Pierre BourdieuHuman Nature and Conduct by John DeweyAnd, the “Parkerization” of Wine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Parker_(wine_critic)#Impact_on_the_supply:_the_%22Parkerization%22_of_wine That’s it for this week’s People Stuff — the show where two anthropologists try (and sometimes fail) to make sense of people.If you’ve got a question, a dilemma, or just something deeply weird about humanity you’d like us to unpack, send it our way at people-stuff.com CreditsProduced by Gabe BullardMusic by The Endless BummerArt by Siobhan HeneganMarketing by Bryan HautLegal support by The Law Office of Matthew Shayefar, the one true business uncle.You can also sign up for our newsletter, drop us a voice memo, or become a Friend of People Stuff — which is our fancy way of saying you get to support the show and we get to keep talking about dust, dads, and late capitalism.So go to people-stuff.com